À l’occasion du lancement du Coca-Cola Life en Argentine, moins sucré et très bien accueilli par les consommateurs, la marque fait appel à Platform, une agence américaine basée à Seattle, pour créer l’habillage de celui-ci. Le résultat est très réussi et à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Norwegian designer Kim Thome has installed a series of two-way mirrors that reflect vinyl stripes covering the walls of a London gallery (+ slideshow).
Kim Thome fixed multicoloured and black and white strips of vinyl to the walls of William Benington Gallery and placed three two-way mirrors on simple black frames in the centre of the room.
The semi-transparent surfaces produce optical illusions as the reflections are overlaid onto the background when viewed from different angles.
Thome says the pattern was divided into coloured and monochrome areas following the shape of the interior and “giving a new graphic element to the mirrors as the viewer explores the space.”
An additional suspended circular artwork features a diagonal pattern on one surface, which is reflected by two-way mirror material applied to the perpendicular plane.
Works on Reflection II is an extension of Kim Thome’s graduation project, which was presented at the Royal College of Art earlier this year and comprised a range of colourful furniture with built-in two-way mirrors.
Other illusory mirrors include an installation that looks as if people are climbing the facade of a London townhouse and a mirror that only works when it is placed in front of a dark shape on a wall. See all design with mirrors »
Here’s some more information from Kim Thome:
William Benington Gallery presents Kim Thome’s first show with the gallery; Works on Reflection II.
Works On Reflection II is a spatial installation which is a result of a longer investigation exploring the ’reflective’. Using the gallery space as the canvas, the installation will use the ‘reflective’ as medium, or more specifically, a two way mirror. Colour, geometry and patterns are central in staging a fictional space for these to merge, creating an ephemeral ever-changing environment.
Three mirrors stand central in the gallery space interacting and reflecting the colour vinyl pattern on the walls. Semi-transparent and reflective material such as two-way mirror allows the fore and background to be manipulated by carefully controlling the surrounding elements.
Colour in the pattern divides the space into three separate areas following the gallery’s interior architecture, giving a new graphic element to the mirrors as the viewer explores the space.
In this work viewers are challenged by what the reflections reveal, another reality, far from what is visually expected, engaging the viewer to reconsider the objects reflected.
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Portuguese artist Ana Rita Antonio has designed an installation based on fourteen different ways to replace a table leg by piling up other objects in its place.
The installation is a new chapter in her ongoing project called The Poetics of Miss Understanding and features an assortment of objects such as wellington boots, potted plants, a lamp, books, a broom and cardboard tubes taking the place of the missing leg.
These are stacked and balanced on top of each other at equal heights to balance a board supported by a single supporting trestle.
The artist also involves her own body by stacking books on her head, lying on the floor with books in a pile on her chest and standing on the table.
The installation is part of Oslo-based Ana Rita Antonio’s graduation piece from the Design LAB department at Amsterdam’s Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
She said the entire project was designed around her difficulties with the English language. “I often misspell words and this was one of the cases,” she explained. “As a mistake I added an ‘s’ in the title but I decided to embrace the misunderstanding and make myself into a character that understands problem solving.”
“The project is a design methodology in problem solving that embraces objects and daily life situations as working material, using whatever components are available to the situation there and then,” she added.
Ana said she has an extremely stubborn and idiosyncratic attitude in problem solving, as well as a belief that design is evolutionary and there will always be several imperfect solutions to a problem.
Other installations featured on Dezeen include a red tower resembling the neck and head of a monster, twisted tree branches growing from the beams of the Palais de Tokyo Museum in Paris and a cloud encased inside a transparent two-storey glass cube.
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Berlin-based Danish architect Sigurd Larsen has designed a collection of tables and benches with surfaces made from materials chosen to age well (+ slideshow).
Sigurd Larsen based the furniture on a standard square section steel frame, with oak, leather, copper and concrete used for the surfaces that the body comes into contact with.
“The furniture appears thin and light in order to put the horizontal surfaces with their special attributes into focus,” Larsen told Dezeen.
“I have always been very excited about materials that gain a higher quality the more you use them,” he added. “I hope that this ‘positive development’ over time will inspire people to keep and maintain their possessions longer instead of replacing them time after time.”
The Melbourne Project bench is available with a copper or steel table adjoining the leather surface, as a daybed or with an oak back rest. Tables come in dining and coffee table dimensions.
The furniture will be exhibited for four weeks from 1 September at the MINI Paceman store in Melbourne, Australia.
We recently published a coffee table with a narrow mouth that swallows books and magazines and another table made using similar techniques to surfboard manufacture.
Photography is by Georg Roske.
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Jonas Damon lo avevamo già notato per la sua Alarm Dock ma con questa Radio Dock sempre prodotta da Areaware ha messo tutti a tacere. Non si sa ancora la data di rilascio ma di sicuro qualcuno di voi sta già sbavando.
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Graduate designer Mugi Yamamoto has designed an inkjet printer that sits on top of a stack of paper and eats its way down through the pile (+ slideshow).
The compact Stack printer by industrial designer Mugi Yamamoto is simply placed on top of a pile of A4 paper, rather than loading paper into the device in batches. The sheets are fed through rollers underneath the machine and exit on the top.
Yamamoto told Dezeen that his intention was to reduce the space taken up by a printer. “Thanks to this new way of printing it is possible to remove the paper tray, the bulkiest element in common printers,” said Yamamoto. “This concept allows a very light appearance and avoids frequent reloading.”
The designer looked at commercial printers and modified existing mechanisms to create the working prototype.
The printed paper creates a new pile on top of the machine. “It’s not endless – it might go up to maybe 200 sheets of paper,” Yamamoto told Dezeen.
Yamamoto completed the project while studying industrial and product design at Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL) in Switzerland. He was also selected as one of ten young designers to exhibit at this year’s Design Parade 8 at Villa Hoailles in Hyeres, France.
The designer was born in Tokyo and is currently undertaking a design internship in Nürnberg, Germany.
Other interesting printers we’ve featured include an inkjet printer that prints patterns to contort pieces of paper into specific 3D forms and an old inkjet printer that had its ink cartridge replace with felt pens.
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L’agence Fuseproject, lancé par Yves Behar, a imaginé en partenariat avec la start-up Briggo une nouvelle expérience pour choisir et se servir un café. Appelé « Coffee Haus », ce kiosque permet grâce à un application mobile de choisir sa boisson favorite. A découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Israeli designers Studio Itai Bar-On formed this collection of conical lights from pigmented concrete.
Studio Itai Bar-On‘s Bullet Collection includes a series of concrete lamps in different sizes, tones and finishes.
Conical shades are topped with a rounded cap and a translucent perspex disk is fixed over the base to soften the light.
The lamps can be suspended from the ceiling or laid on the floor.
The lamps come in white, grey, dark grey, orange, blue and yellow.
Bubbles that formed in the mixture are visible as holes on the surfaces, which can be polished or left raw.
Some unusual uses of concrete we’ve featured include a collection of furniture and a stationery set.
In our most recent stories about lamps, one resembles a dining cloche lifted into the air and another is soft enough to be used as a cushion.
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